Week of October 31 - November 4

Dear families,

I hope you are having a terrific weekend! Nice to get the extra hour of sleep!

This week was off to an exciting start with Halloween on Monday! The children had fun walking in the school-wide Halloween Parade, and enjoyed making crafts at our party in the afternoon. Thank you so much to the moms of Caelan, Jackson, Ethan, Hudson and Elea and Andrew's aunt for making crafts with the children and bringing healthy snacks! Your time and energy was really appreciated and the children loved the crafts! The children completed their Halloween folders this week and their work went home in Friday's mail bag. The awesome Monster Math hands the children did with Ms. Santiago are on the hall bulletin board. I'm sure the children are very proud to show all of it to you!

The words of the weeks were AM and BE. This week we practised making several words with the first six letter sounds SATIPN. Practise this at hone with magnetic letters or letters written on paper!

We were treated to a visit from children's author Willow Dawson this week in the Library, and also to a Bus Safety lesson. The children practised exiting a real school bus from the back and learned important lessons about bus safety.

An important reminder about playground use and safety after school: Please ensure your child is properly supervised at all times.

This week we started our new Inquiry about Feelings. Our focus is on empathy, which is this month's TDSB Character Trait. This also ties in very well to Remembrance Day.

Sign up for Parent Teacher interviews started on Tuesday. This term Senior Kindergarten children will receive Progress Reports. I look forward to meeting with you during interviews the week of November 14-18.

That's the news for this week. See you tomorrow!